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- Organizers
Shanghai Strategic Emerging Industries Foundation (SEIF)
The Shanghai Strategic Emerging Industries Foundation was established in December 2014 as a not-for-profit organization，
www.shseif.org@company
by China Materialia LLC and registered with the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau. The Foundation is committed to building strategic partnerships between East and West emerging industries. With an international team and professional background, the Foundation has helped to promote open innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship.
China Materialia
China Materialia started in 2010 as an Open Innovation (OI) advisory company. Over the years, we have worked with many multinational companies to build open innovation networks in China, including research institutions, start-up companies, incubators and accelerators. CM also worked with local governments to select high-potential high-tech start-up companies for business plan advisory.
www.chinamaterialia.com@company
Over the years, CM has advised over 200 high-tech start-ups, of which more than 100 are returnee companies, and more than one third raised venture capital financing post CM advisory. Thorough quality work, CM established reputation as China’s premium business plan advisory firm for start-up companies.
China Materialia LLP Fund I of 150 million RMB was raised in 2011, backed by the Shanghai Venture Capital Guidance Fund, Shanghai Yangpu District and seven private enterprises. China Materialia raised China Materialia Venture Capital Fund II of 400 million RMB in 2016 with backings of government and corporate strategic investors, including GE, Samsung, BASF, SABIC and BAT. China Materialia Venture Capital Fund II is focused on advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and digital industrial. We are an active investor in our companies. We help our portfolio companies by contributing our knowledge and expertise, by introducing them to corporate strategic partners, by assisting business development and by sharing our extensive network. Our foremost goal is to assist entrepreneurs in the making of great companies.
- Official Sponsors
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) is one of the world’s leading, multi-category consumer goods companies, which provides tobacco and nicotine products to millions of consumers around the world. It employs over 55,000 people, with market leadership in over 55 countries and factories in 42.
www.bat.com@company
Its Strategic Portfolio is made up of its global cigarette brands and an increasing range of potentially reduced-risk products, comprising vapour and tobacco heating products, as well as oral tobacco and nicotine products such as moist snuff and snus.
In 2017 the Group generated reported revenue of £20 billion and profit from operations of £6.5 billion. In July 2017, British American Tobacco p.l.c. acquired the remaining 57.8% of Reynolds American Inc. that BAT did not already own, creating a stronger, global tobacco and nicotine company.
Mitsubishi Corporation (China)
Established in 1995 with a registered capital of US$260 million, Mitsubishi Corporation (China) Co., Ltd. is an investment holding company established by Mitsubishi Corporation in China. Its headquarters is in Shanghai and a branch office in Beijing. Mitsubishi Corporation has branches in 11 cities in mainland China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Qingdao, and Chengdu in North China, Shanghai and Wuhan in East China, and Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Xiamen in South China.
www.mitsubishicorp.com/cn/zh@company
Shanghai Cloud Valley
The national “1025 Plan” proposes to focus on the development of strategic emerging industries. Among them, the cloud computing industry is the first in the emerging information industry to be deployed nationwide. As a pilot city for the national cloud computing industry, Shanghai took the lead in proposing the “Cloud Sea Plan” in 2010, and formulated the development goal of “Ten Hundred Thousand” in Shanghai in the field of cloud computing within three years.
www.shcloudvalley.com/@company
As one of the main implementation carriers of the “Cloud Sea Plan”, the Shanghai Cloud Computing Innovation Base was unveiled in Yangpu in October 2010 and will become an important boosting force for the development of the cloud computing industry in Shanghai.
Shanghai Wujiaochang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
The goal of the Wujiaochang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute is to make Yangpu the “most successful place for entrepreneurship”.
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The college is open to all startups in Yangpu district, and the first batch of founders and entrepreneurs of more than 300 companies will become their new students. In the future, the scope of the students will gradually expand to the whole city and even the whole country.
Lingang Asset Management
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- Technology Partner
EventBank
Founded in 2013, EventBank provides solutions designed to streamline operations, modernize processes, and eliminate engagement challenges. Our innovative products combine the best event management, membership management, email marketing, CRM, and mobile apps into an all-in-one cloud platform.
www.eventbank.com@company
The EventBank team is comprised of experts in cloud-based software development, event management, mobile apps, digital marketing, and user experience design. We're now approaching 100 employees and many of us come from some of the world's largest, most successful organizations — Google, IBM, Walt Disney, Oracle, Tableau, and other top-tier companies.
EventBank is present in more than 30 countries and has offices across Asia, Europe, and North America. Our clients range from multinationals, such as Deloitte and Nature, to chambers of commerce and associations, such as AmCham Shanghai and DIA, to community organizations like Lean In and StartUp Weekend.